Telegraph Road Chords & Tabs

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Note:
I didn't write this tab, but I found it at this site:
http://perso.club-internet.fr/fbiramba/ (we're in the year 2001 now...)
I uploaded this tab, because I've been trying really hard to find it, and I don't want
everyone to have to go through that. I strongly recommend that you visit their site
(they update all the time anyway).
Well here it is, pretty accurate, too! Enjoy!
TELEGRAPH ROAD
At 1:48
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FDm
A long time ago came a man on a track
CBbF
walking thirty miles with a sack on his back
BbCFC7
and he put down his load where he thought it was the best
BbGm7Bb
he made a home in the wilderness
FDm
he built a cabin and a winter store
CAmBbF
and he ploughed up the ground by the cold lake shore
BbCFC
and the other travellers came riding down the track
BbF/AGm7Bb
and they never went further and they never went back
FDm
then came the churches then came the schools
CBbF
then came the lawyers then came the rules
BbCsus4CFC
then came the trains and the trucks with their loads
BbBbDm
and the dirty old track was the telegraph road
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FDm
Then came the mines - then came the ore
CBbBbF
then there was the hard times then there was a war
BbCFC7
telegraph sang a song about the world outside
BbGm7
telegraph road got so deep and so wide
BbF
like a rolling river. . .
At 4:07
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DD7/F#G
And my radio says tonight it's gonna freeze
Dm
people driving home from the factories
C
there's six lanes of traffic
AmDm
three lanes moving slow. . .
At 5:49
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CFDm
I used to like to go to work but they shut it down
CBb
I've got a right to go to work but there's no work here to be found
FBbCFC7
yes and they say we're gonna have to pay what's owed
BbGm7
we're gonna have to reap from seed that's been sowed
BbFDm
and the birds up on the wires and the telegraph poles
CBb
they can always fly away from this rain and this cold
C7F
you can here them singing out their telegraph code
CBbDm
all the way down the telegraph road
At 7:52
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CFDm
You know I'd sooner forget but I remember those nights
CBb
when life was just a bet on a race between the lights
FBbCFC7
you had your head on my shoulder you had your hand in my hair
BbGm7
now you act a little colder like you don't seem to care
BbFDm
but believe in me baby and I'll take you away
CBb
from out of this darkness and into the day
CFC
from these rivers of headlights these rivers of rain
F/ABbC7FC
from the anger that lives on the streets with these names
F/ABbC7FF/A
'cos I've run every red light on memory lane
BbC7FCF/A
I've seen desperation explode into flames
BbC7FC
and I don't want to see it again. . .
AmDm
From all of these signs saying sorry but we're closed
Bb
all the way
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At 9:32
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Transcrit par Franck Birambaux
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